Smegging Great! Red Dwarf Series 10 Confirmed

The cast of U.K. sci-fi/comedy show Red Dwarf is reuniting for six new shows.Photo courtesy Grant/Naylor

We’ve seen a vast amount of rumor and speculation, but finally we are graced with confirmation that Red Dwarf will return to our TV screens with a 10th series, production of which is scheduled to begin in November of this year.

[partner id=”wireduk”]The news/rumor was originally broken back in January by Craig Charles (who plays the show’s space slob, Dave Lister) in a radio interview, which set the press — and the Twitter Robert Llewellyn (Dwarf‘s square-headed mechanoid Kryten) — alight with excited talk about what is to come. The good news is that the 10th series has finally been officially confirmed by Red Dwarf co-creator and writer Doug Naylor.

The bad news is that little else is currently known about how the new six-episode series will play out.

What we do know is that production is to begin this November and that, crucially, Lister, Rimmer, Cat and Kryten — or Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules and Robert Llewellyn, as they’re known to their friends and family — will be all present and correct. Naylor is believed to be writing the scripts.

Like the four-episode Back to Earth special series in 2009, the 10th series will air on the freeview channel Dave, although no dates of when this is likely to be have been announced. The “Dave specials” were a massive success for the relatively new channel, drawing in record ratings — although the episodes themselves were met with mixed responses from the audience.

It should come as no surprise that no details about storylines or what lineup of secondary characters we should expect to see have been confirmed — although we are secretly hoping for a return of the shiny head of Queeg, possibly in a bizarre romance involving one of the skutters. While we would also love to see a return to the live-studio-audience taping environment we were so fond of in the earlier series, our hopes are not high.

Watch this space for more details as they arrive over the coming months. In the meantime, why not let us know what you hope to see the four Dwarfers get up to in the comments below. Any characters you’d like to see again? Any old storylines extended?